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| After Previous | An animation sequencing setting that causes the animation to trigger after the previous event has finished. Compare to With Previous. |
| animation | An effect you apply to placeholders or other content to move the content in unique ways on the slide. |
| Animation Painter | A feature that copies animation settings from one object to another. |
| Animation Pane | A pane that enables you to manage all the animation effects on the active slide. |
| aspect ratio | The relationship of width to height in a picture or shape. |
| assistant | In an organization chart, a person who reports directly to a superior. |
| audio | A sound or music clip. |
| clip art | Predrawn artwork in a wide variety of styles. Office clip art files can include drawn graphics, photographs, sounds, and animated graphics. |
| constrain | To force a drawing object into a particular shape or alignment. |
| crop | To remove a portion of a picture or shape that is not needed. The cropped portion is hidden until you compress the picture. |
| delay | An animation setting that specifies how long the effect should pause before it begins. |
| demote | To make an item subordinate to another item. |
| duration | An animation setting that determines how long an animation effect should take to execute. |
| emphasis effect | An animation effect that causes an object to move, change color, or otherwise call attention to itself when it is neither entering nor exiting the slide. |
| entrance effect | An animation effect that occurs when an object is entering the slide. |
| exit effect | An animation effect that occurs when an object is exiting the slide. |
| gridlines | A grid of horizontal and vertical lines that can be used as guides when positioning objects on a slide. |
| guides | Nonprinting vertical and horizontal lines that you can move or copy to align objects on a slide. |
| keyword | A word or phrase that describes a subject or category on which you can search. |
| motion path | An animation effect that moves an object along a specified path. |
| On Click | A trigger for an animation or transition that occurs when the mouse is clicked. |
| order | The way in which objects stack up on a slide as you create them. |